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Aesop's Fables by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($11.98) | Audio Cassette
Aesop's wonderful and amusing animal characters, which take on human-like qualities, have delighted the young and old for centuries.
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A Christmas Carol by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($12.78) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
A Christmas Carol is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens' Christmas books, and the story of the miser Scrooge's redemption has become as much part of the Christmas tradition as...
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A Christmas Carol by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($18.38)
‘A ghostly little book’ said Charles Dickens of his famous Christmas novella which appeared in 1843.
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A Christmas Celebration: A Christmas Carol and the Christmas Collection
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Audio CD ($27.98)
Here is a perfect coupling for those Christmas evenings of Christmas journeys.
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David Copperfield by
Anton Lesser
Abridged Edition
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Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
This much-loved novel was, by Dickens' own admission, his 'favorite child'. It is easy to see why, with its colorful characters ranging from the repulsive...
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Great Expectations by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($26.08) | Digital Download ($23.18)
The absorbing story of a struggling orphan who finds his expectations of wealth unfulfilled, after he becomes the benefactor of an anonymous donor.
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Great Expectations by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($89.98)
Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character.
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Hamlet by
Anton Lesser
Unabridged Edition
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Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy stories are among the greatest and most poignant classics for children and adults alike.
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Hard Times by
Anton Lesser
Abridged Edition
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Audio CD | Digital Download ($18.38)
In this, Dickens' most openly political novel, we discover the terrible human consequences of a ruthlessly materialistic philosophy in the lives of Thomas Gradgrind's family...
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The Iliad by
Anton Lesser
Abridged Edition
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Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war...
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The Iliad by
Anton Lesser
Unabridged Edition
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Audio CD ($71.98) | Digital Download ($68.58)
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word.
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The Iliad by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($28.98) | Digital Download
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war.
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The Middle Way: The Story of Buddhism by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
General interest in Buddism has never been higher. The story and teachings of a man who lived 2,500 years ago have a special resonance for us today...
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Nicholas Nickleby by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($41.98) | Digital Download
One of Dickens' earlier novels, dating from 1839, charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicolas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world.
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The Odyssey by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Homer's Odyssey is the thrilling and moving tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war. For ten years he experiences storms, shipwrecks, and...
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The Odyssey by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($50.38) | Digital Download
The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning King of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops, and the seductive Sirens, to the love of Calypso on her all-too-comfortable isle.
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The Odyssey by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($23.18) | Digital Download
The Trojan War is over, and Odysseus, the cunning king of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus.
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Oliver Twist by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($21.58) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($21.58)
Oliver Twist, Dickens' second novel, is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice, the Artful Dodger, and their gang of child thieves.
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Paradise Lost by
Anton Lesser
Abridged Edition
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Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and imagery, Milton tells the story of Man's creation, fall, and redemption...
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Paradise Lost by
Anton Lesser
Unabridged Edition
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Audio CD ($47.98) | Digital Download
Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and imagery, Milton tells the story of Man's creation, fall, and redemption...
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Paradise Regained by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
In Paradise Regained, having successfully tempted Adam and Eve, forcing their departure from the Garden of Eden, Satan sets out to tempt again, this time Jesus himself as he comes to the end of his 40 days in the desert.
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The Pickwick Papers by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($21.58) | Digital Download
The Pickwick Papers, Dickens' first novel, is a glorious romp through the pre-Reform Bill England of 1827. Traveling by stage-coach, the innocent but well-intentioned...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD ($17.98) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners...
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse by
Anton Lesser
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Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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